November 8th: Governance live/Enterprise update

stonehedge wrote:

UPDATE - 8th November 2018

Launch of Governance

We are pleased to announce that the proposal/governance system will be enabled on Saturday. This will allow members of the community to submit proposals to the network for funding. This will create opportunities for people to add value to the Helium project and receive compensation for their efforts. The first superblock will be paid in roughly one month from now.

If you are interested in submitting a proposal, a user guide can be found here https://www.heliumlabs.org/v1.0/docs/how-to-create-a-budget-proposal.

We ask all masternode operators to familiarise themselves with how to vote on a proposal. Masternode projects have traditionally struggled with "voter turnout". The more masternode operators we can have participating in voting on proposals, the more likely it is that we will have the highest quality proposals passing for funding and more likely it will be that poor quality proposals are rejected.

You can find a guide to voting here https://www.heliumlabs.org/v1.0/docs/how-to-vote-for-a-budget-proposal.

A GUI to make voting easier will be included in a future release. We're also working on getting services such as a proposal tracker and explorer online ASAP. We will provide details about those features in the coming days and weeks.

Enterprise Progress

The intial plan was to have a single enterprise workstream. This has turned out to be unfeasible in practice, partly due to the level of interest we have received from third parties and partly due to a realisation that we need to expand the scope of our intended partnerships. For these reasons, we have made the decision that enterprise efforts will be split into two groups, each answerable and reportable to the community and governance system in their own right.

@coins101 has been working on a focused enterprise workstream (Helium Alliance) and will be continuing to do so. Stonehedge has conducted a review of material provided by coins101 and has concluded that there is little opportunity for him to add to it in a useful or meaningful way. From this point forwards, Stonehedge will no longer be forming a bridge between the HLM community and the Helium Alliance. The AMA questions that the community submitted have been passed to Coins101 but have not been answered yet. Coins101 has also said that he is working to create signed partnership agreements with his partner organisations that he will be sharing publicly however an estimate for when this will happen has not been provided.

@KarmaWolf has been working on his own focused enterprise workstream, that we shall refer to as Helium Core Enterprise.

When these two Enterprise streams intersect, the groups will work together in concert. Ultimately, the founders created this network to be community based and it is in this spirit we will be conducting Enterprise work for our second network layer. The owner of each workstream should be held accountable by the community and it is the responsibility's of the workstream owner to provide updates and news.

Please ask any questions that you may have.